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I suppose I shall have to lie still for four or five weeks more, before my foot is well." "It's tiresome, I guess, ain't it?" "Yes sometimes." "Well, I used to think, if folks was good, things wouldn't happen to 'em. That's what I thought. That was my study of divinity. And when everything on earth happened to me, I just concluded it was because I warn't a bit too good to deserve it.
It is this force, for instance, which leads him to touch things in order to become acquainted with them, and we say to him, "Do not touch"; he moves about to establish his equilibrium, and we tell him to "keep still"; he questions us to acquire knowledge, and we reply, "Do not be tiresome."
Geoffrey?" she said in the same soft voice. "And second," he continued, wishing he could see her face, "second, because I find it er, well highly amusing." "Amusing!" she cried, turning suddenly, her eyes very bright and her cheeks hot and anger-flushed. "Amusing!" she repeated, "ah, yes that's just it it's all only a joke to you, to be done with when it grows tiresome.
"That will make my adventure perfect!" said Rose, her eyes dancing. At which Raeburn smiled again, amused to think of the uneventful life in which such a trifling incident could seem an "adventure." "It seems very inhospitable," said Erica, "but don't you think, Rose, you had better go back to Greyshot?" "No, you tiresome piece of prudence, I don't," said Rose perversely.
I thought she was taking things too easy, although I was thankful to hear that she had been got out of her trouble; but this work that she speaks of is dreadfully tiresome, and all the lady-clerks refused it. She is getting very good pay for it, but it will tire her on these spring evenings. 'I did her wrong too.
The Fallaheen having taken their families home, our tent-flaps were up, and only the stars looked in stars swarming like fireflies in the blue cup of a hanging flower; but Anthony would speak of nothing more intimate than the Mountain of the Golden Pyramid, or his tiresome sheikh's tomb.
Archer confidentially to Miss Nugent. "He is dreadfully tiresome, to be sure, but John thinks the world of him, you know, and it would not exactly do to leave him alone all the time.
He started the machine. "Don't forget I love you," he called in a low voice. She stood looking after him as the car dwindled down the street. "Yes, you do!" she murmured. She walked up the path to the house, her face thoughtful, as with a tiresome perplexity. In her own room, divesting herself of her wraps, she gave the mirror a long scrutiny.
"Jocelyn, don't interrupt!" said the wife of Sir Charles. "Although," to her husband, in a lower tone, "I must confess these details a little tiresome!" "Not a bit!" Sir Charles' voice rose in lively protest. "I remember out in Australia reading about the fellow in the sporting papers from home, and wondering what had become of him. So that was it? Go on, Mr. Gillett!
The bed-sitting-room slept in last night for the last time; the two utterly perfect rooms and all that their possession connoted, to be occupied that evening for the first time! Yes, in all the tumultuous pride and engrossment of that, there was no place how could there be place? for tiresome things of other people's worlds, if such should offer.
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